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Rethinking Insolvency Law

September 20, 2021by Jason Harris 4 Comments

Michael Murray and I recently presented at a roundtable discussion for the Australian Academy of Law and the Ross Parsons Centre for Commercial, Corporate and Taxation Law at Sydney Law […]

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Law reform

Insolvency practitioner charge out rates-the cost of carrying the State

July 16, 2021by Jason Harris 3 Comments

In making a winding up order against Forum Finance, Justice Michael Lee made this comment about the hourly fees of the proposed liquidators: “[24]    … The prevailing rate for partners of […]

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Remuneration

Comparing the start of Parts 5.3A and 5.3B

April 20, 2021by Jason Harris 11 Comments

I recently searched ASIC’s insolvency notices website for notices of appointment for the new small business restructuring procedure in Part 5.3B of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth). This revealed 8 […]

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Law reform, Restructuring, SME, Voluntary administration

Talking Insolvency podcast: episode 3

April 19, 2021by Jason Harris Leave a comment

Here is the 3rd episode of the Talking Insolvency podcast, where we discuss priority creditors in insolvency with Professor Christopher Symes. We discuss the priority given to employee entitlements and […]

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Audio, Liquidation

A critique of recent insolvency reforms

March 31, 2021by Jason Harris Leave a comment

Here is a recording of the webinar that Michael Murray and I gave recently for ERA Legal where we discuss recent insolvency reforms, including safe harbour and small business restructuring. […]

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Audio, Law reform

Podcast: Talking Insolvency Ep 2

January 23, 2021by Jason Harris 1 Comment

The second episode of Talking Insolvency is now available. In this episode, John, David and I discuss the role of government in insolvency in Australia and the UK. I’ve set […]

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Bankruptcy, Law reform, Liquidation

Early guidance on safe harbour: zombie companies need not apply

November 20, 2020by Jason Harris 3 Comments

The safe harbour against insolvent trading liability for directors has been in place since 19 September 2017.1 It was introduced to provide directors with an incentive to try to save their […]

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Law reform, Restructuring, SME

Challenging IP discretionary decisions

November 13, 2020by Jason Harris Leave a comment

I chaired an interesting webinar last night that features Dr John Wood from the UK and Karen Petch from New Chambers here in Sydney. We discussed the grounds upon which […]

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Audio, Foreign insolvency

Talking Insolvency

November 4, 2020by Jason Harris 1 Comment

With all of the law reform initiatives announced recently I’ve been giving a few seminars and webinars on different aspects of insolvency law. While I enjoy doing this (if you’d […]

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Audio, Law reform, Restructuring, SME

Reform of UK schemes

October 30, 2020by Jason Harris Leave a comment

This is a video of the webinar that I hosted in September for Sydney Law School with the team from Allen & Overy, discussing the new Pt 26A restructuring procedure. […]

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Foreign insolvency, Restructuring, Schemes of arrangement

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THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

A blog about corporate law and corporate governance

Bankruptcy in Pittsburgh

Insolvency Update

The Law of Insolvency

Case law updates from Jon Colclough

Murrays Legal

A blog discussing developments in insolvency and debt restructuring

Carrie Rome-Sievers, Barrister

Developments in insolvency and commercial law

OneNote for Beginners

Law School Tech

A|LAW|UNTO|HERSELF

Mark McKillop Barrister

Commentary on insolvency, commercial and PPSA law

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